Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:20:14 GMT From: Ara Avvali <Ara@Avvali.COM> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/71443: [usb] usb keyboard not detected on 5.3 Message-ID: <200409102220.i8AMKEXJ037867@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/71443; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ara Avvali <Ara@Avvali.COM> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/71443: [usb] usb keyboard not detected on 5.3 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:10:20 -0400 thank you for help. I gladly try it and let you know :-D Brooks Davis wrote: >The problem here is that we now attache to the PS/2 keyboard even if >there isn't one actually connected. This means we can plug PS/2 >keyboards into servers after boot, but means that USB keyboards don't >work. Once you're in multi-user mode, we have a devd.conf entry that >causes the system to use the USB keyboard when it is plugged in, but >that doesn't help with sysinstall. I've got a patch that should cause >the CDs to work with USB keyboards by not attaching the atkbd device if >there is no PS/2 keyboard. There's a test ISO at: > >http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/6.0-CURRENT-i386-bootonly.iso.bz2 > >If you could try it out and report back that would be helpful. It >doesn't contain install files because I built it at home where I'm stuck >behind a 144k link. > >-- Brooks > > > >
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